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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oaf
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Watch it, you big oaf!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Only an oaf would remain longer.
▪ Really, George was a tasteless oaf at times.
▪ She deserves better than to be upended by a drunken oaf who seems incapable of controlling his social behaviour.
▪ That big oaf of a stonemason?
▪ They have also, it must be admitted, sometimes floundered and fumbled like ten-thumbed, hammer-footed, constipated, sexless oafs.
▪ Under the influence Clift was transformed from an articulate and relaxed friend into a repugnant oaf.
▪ Unfortunately, facing Mrs Bottomley reduced me from passionate eloquence to an inarticulate oaf, and my opportunity was lost.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
oaf

Auf \Auf\ ([add]f), n. [OE. auph, aulf, fr. Icel. [=a]lfr elf. See Elf.] [Also spelt oaf, ouphe.] A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.]
--Drayton. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oaf

1620s, auf, oph (modern form from 1630s), "a changeling; a foolish child left by the fairies" [Johnson], from a Scandinavian source such as Norwegian alfr "silly person," in Old Norse "elf" (see elf). Hence, "a misbegotten, deformed idiot." Until recently, some dictionaries still gave the plural as oaves.

Wiktionary
oaf

n. 1 (context obsolete English) An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child. 2 (context pejorative English) A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton; an idiot.

WordNet
oaf

n. an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk]

Wikipedia
ÖAF

ÖAF is an initialism for Österreichische Automobil-Fabrik, previously known as Österreichische Austro-Fiat, an Austrian (Austro-Hungarian) car and truck manufacturer.

Usage examples of "oaf".

Listening to him, Aganippe could hardly believe Mother Apia would saddle her with this ox-sized oaf.

I am the greatest owl, monkey, baboon, rascal, oaf, ignoramus, blockhead, buffoon, or what you will.

I see um--shoor der boole mit der bleck star bei der vorehead in der middle oaf.

Polmont throws a load ay papers oaf the desk, n tries tae yank the phone oot by the socket, like they dae in the films, only the cunt disnae budge, once, twice.

Den we gedt oop und maerch und maerch alle night, und in der morgen we hear dose cennon egain, hell oaf der way, far-off, I doand know vhair.

Nor did Miss Gumm apparently feel it necessary to force detail on an unquestioning oaf.

For a man even to try to do so branded him as inurbane, uncouth, and a loutish oaf.

I asked this oaf for help and he threw me in the Kebar Canal and beat me.

So far, Larikal and the huffing oaf Geremis had been unable to locate the phylactery, yet Yasraena was convinced that it was within the stalagmite fortress.

As Jasco once put it: -They ambulance radges that scraped Solo oaf the pavement seem tae huv left a wee bit ay the perr cunt behind.

No longer can we compel hinds to swink in our fields as their feudal duty, but must hire these oafs for real money, like any untitled squire.

There was I telling tarradiddles by the yard to that old oaf Sir Orlando Drought, when a confidential word from Plantagenet would have had ten times more effect.

Cantoni was an unliberated oaf, but what did you expect of the Intervention brigade?

So he stood silent, dripping on stray artifacts, like the unsmart oaf he was.

Ronnie Allison had warned him oaf hingin aboot wi us: drinkin, clubbin and fitba, but Billy didnae gie a fuck.